What are you guys' thoughts? Obviously, I have a machine (Voyager) that can power crunch pretty good! But in the summertime, oh boy, the computer room gets extra warm because of the heat generated by Voyager. By going to stock settings and crunching less work units at a time, this will surely drop the heat that expels from Voyager, right? If not, then I have to switch to just GPU work to keep the heat down.

Please give me your input. I built Voyager strictly to crunch for SETI@Home, and I'm going by the limited knowledge I have as I jumped into Lunatics quite early on and my hypothesis may not be correct.

Seems a more elegant solution would be to use TThrotle [url]http://www.efmer.eu/boinc/index.html [/url]to set max temps for CPU and GPU. Then work, and heat output, can vary, low on hot days, higher on cool nights.

The advantage is that the GPU produces more work per watt then the CPU.

By going to stock settings and crunching less work units at a time, this will surely drop the heat that expels from Voyager, right?

Nothing you will notice. The stock apps take longer because they use the CPUs not as efficiently as opt apps do. But the CPU is still @ 100% load and full clock speed. Sure, the load is not same and the CPU might get a bit colder, but that's nothing that will help in your case (I assume you want to have the room colder, not the CPU)

If not, then I have to switch to just GPU work to keep the heat down.

Or use at least less cores and let the unused cores clock down (in case you disabled that)..

As mentioned, the Advanced Preferences tab is your friend in this case.
You can set how much CPU to use and reduce it until the heat is manageable.
Or, you can program it to run Boinc only during the evening hours and avoid the heat of the day.

My tv puts off more heat than my cruncher so do my light bulbs and my toaster and my refrierator and my dryier and my oven and I live in virginia where the temps regularly are in the 90's and 100's during the summer so why scrafice the cruncher?

It doesn't matter what time of the year it is here my rigs just go flat out all the time and I have no troubles keeping them cool but then that is the way that I built them.

How did you achieve this, Wiggo?

I just picked up a summer case. Now to decide which host to place inside. I'm pretty much looking at swapping the Win 8 host from the old Compaq workstation case to the new super ventilated one. They had the case on sale last Monday for $35 and free shipping. I needed a case anyway. Only problem is the new case uses 120mm fans and all my spares are 80mm. It's always something...

My tv puts off more heat than my cruncher so do my light bulbs and my toaster and my refrierator and my dryier and my oven and I live in virginia where the temps regularly are in the 90's and 100's during the summer so why scrafice the cruncher?

I don't see how that's possible, unless you aren't actually crunching anything. lol.

My tv puts off more heat than my cruncher so do my light bulbs and my toaster and my refrierator and my dryier and my oven and I live in virginia where the temps regularly are in the 90's and 100's during the summer so why scrafice the cruncher?

I don't see how that's possible, unless you aren't actually crunching anything. lol.

I have been crunching sine 1999 have a rac of 35,000 and a credit of 25 million and that is with one cruncher so I crunch I use my 4 tons of ac to my domicle cool. So it is possible to crunch in the summer time I do not sacriface my laundry or cooking or watching tv or keeping food cool in the summer so not my cruncher either.

I have been crunching sine 1999 have a rac of 35,000 and a credit of 25 million and that is with one cruncher so I crunch I use my 4 tons of ac to my domicle cool. So it is possible to crunch in the summer time I do not sacriface my laundry or cooking or watching tv in the summer so not my cruncher either.

I guess all of my appliances are more energy efficient than yours...My cruncher gives off way more heat than my t.v.'s, etc, etc.

I have been crunching sine 1999 have a rac of 35,000 and a credit of 25 million and that is with one cruncher so I crunch I use my 4 tons of ac to my domicle cool. So it is possible to crunch in the summer time I do not sacriface my laundry or cooking or watching tv in the summer so not my cruncher either.

I guess all of my appliances are more energy efficient than yours...My cruncher gives off way more heat than my t.v.'s, etc, etc.

My cigerate lighter puts out more heat than my cruncher. All my appliances are effiecnt and are new and up to date.